awk and stdio-common/tst-printf-format-as-double* trouble (mpfr support needed)

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:

> > OK, thanks. My suggestion would be to just document it as a requirement
> > for the glibc test suite at the moment.
> > 
> 
> PS. The current behaviour is a bit annoying; if gawk has no MPFR support, and
> you run the glibc testsuite,
> 
> * the printf tests are UNSUPPORTED, but
> * the corresponding memory tests FAIL
> 
> (and that's a lot of FAIL).
> 
> Would it be possible to fix this such that both test sets report UNSUPPORTED
> in that case?

 Yes, I've been aware of the issue and will work on a fix, however I've 
concluded our overall setup for -mem tests is messy, so I'd like to get 
that sorted first and then have the fix applied on top in a single place.

 Do you think it's something that has to be addressed urgently?

  Maciej